♪ ♪ >> dickerson: welcome back to "face the nation." as some parents prepare to send their kids off to camp this summer, the c.d.c. revised its covid guidelines for children, particularly those who have been vaccinated. one of the largest providers of day and overnight camps is the ymca of the u.s.a. and joining us now from philadelphia its is president and c.e.o. kevin washington. good morning, mr. washington. >> good morning. glad to be here this morning. >> dickerson: we're glad to have you. last year summer camps were significantly curtailed as a resofthe paemic. now the c.d.c. has come out with this guide lans. w --guidance.

what do things like like this year? is camp cw it is. we're hopeful it will be an exciting summer for the young people. they have experienced significant difficulties over the past year, with isolation away from their friends. we're happy with the c.d.c. guidelines, and we now that the ymca of the u.s.a. and all of our affiliates will operate camp with fun and safety with all of the c.d.c. guidelines in mind. we learned a lot last year when the pandemic was in place. some of our camps did run. and because of the partnership we had with the c.d.c. and the american camping association, we feel very confident about being able to put forth a summer where kids will have fun, enjoy themselves, have some learning, meet some new friends, and be engaho wlyreee this summer.

it wr emotional, social, and physical activities that they're looking for for this year. >> dickerson: as i understand it, there are 10,000 day camps, and 230 overnight camps. when the c.d.c. issues this kind of guidelines, how easy is it, or what is the process for taking that information and making sure it is in place and the new guidelines are working for parents who have kids attending that many camps? >> well, one of the things we make sure, that is important, that there are local and health guide guidelines that are available that the ymca thas that has to work for each state. 50 of the states say yes, you can open your camp this year, but each individually and locally has restrictions we have to abide by. so all of our camps are engaged in this work, ensuring they're providing a safe environment andllg and se health officials, as well as c.d.c. guidelines.

that's the way we work this process, using all of that information to provide the kind of environment where parents can feel comfortable thatt e do at camp. one of the other issues that is extremely important is, as we have the vaccine rolled out, as you know, that the emphasis is on teachers, child care workers, and camp counselors. so a lot of our camp counselors had the opportunity to get vaccinated as part of this process as well, ensuring another level of safety for our kids as they attend camp this summer. >> dickerson: they had access to the vaccine, those who work in the camps, but will it be mandatory if someone is teaching in the camps over the summer, that they be vaccinated? >> it has not been maed, but we know sof oup counselors have takentage of ths not been mandated as of yet. >> dickerson: why did as you thought through it?

>> as a national resource organization, we cannot mandate. and as you know, there has been quite a few issues around that particular area. we cannot mandate at the national resource. we have to make sure that ymca's follow state and local guidelines. and many are following what school districts are doing in their communities as well as a guide in this process. so we cannot mandate because each ymca is an independent organization and have to follow local and state guidelines. so they are different in every state that is in the country. so we cannot mandate that. >> dickerson: 30% of the campers attend with some kind of financial aid. how has the pandemic changed that picture in terms of those who need financial aid to enjoy these camps? >> great question. for us, access and equity is a key component of who we are. we want to ensure that all kids have the opportunity to attend our camp.

so during the pandemic, and beyond that, because we know that kids of color and kids in marginalized communities have been affected disproportionately by covid-19, we're making extremely strong efforts to ensure that we have the resources available to support them as they come to camp. we ask all families if they're interested in going to camp, contact your local ymca camp because we have funds available at the local level to ensure we're providing access to those young kids. i know and many of our kids know and parents know how transformational a summer camp experience can be. we want all kids to benefit from that, where they can meet new friends, develop new skill sets, and become engaged in thfe-long relationships ac and equity is a keympent ofhr

those who may not have the afd camp. >> dickerson: you talke disparit have been highlighted by covid-19. i was struck by how much the "y" has adapted, providing emergency meals, taking care of first responders, becoming a homeless shelter. how much did the ymca of the u.s.a. have to change and pivot as a result of the pandemic? >> great question. you highlighted some of the things that we do. but you know, as an oranization, we've been around for 170 years. so we've been always able to respond to the needs of our community. the pandemic was another example of how we were able to pivot, and i say become what i would call a vital community asset in the communities that we served. 1400 child care sites that we put up to ensure that first responders, police officers, and others who are on the frontline could

have a place for their kids to go and be safely engaged as they did their jobs. 1300 feeding sites because we knew we feed kids during the course of the year, and recognized that that need grew bigger with families and other communities. so ymca stepped up to provide that. all of those things were important and demonstrated that we can be a vital community as setd. asset. as you know, we lost substantial revenue through this process but was able to pivot and provide our communities with what they needed, and we continued to do that on a daily basis. >> dickerson: kevin washington, thank you so much for being with us. and we'll be back in a moment. medication to reduce inflammation on you, getting on that flight? back off, uc! stelara® may increase your risk of infections,

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advisor, stephen kaufer, who joins us from newton, massachusetts. good morning. >> good morning to you all. >> dickerson: so, many people remember where they were at the beginning of this pandemic because they had to cancel travel plans. now with vaccinations up, what does the picture look like? >> travel is back. if you look at th u.s., this is going to be a really busy season, we see. half the people in america want to take a summer vacation domestically. and another quarter want to take an international trip. if you think back to a year ago, there were cancellations, and those taking trips were going outdoors. now we have a lot more activity all around the country, and it is not just outdoors. the cities are making very real comeback. >> dickerson: as you look at what people are looking for, are thetdoors, going back into the cities. are you noticing behavior

changes from what we would have expected in a pre-pandemic age? >> yes. in fact, we're seeing people interested in taking perhaps longer vacations. 40% of the folks say they're going to be spending more on this vacation. they're going to take a longer vacation. they're going to do a few more things on the vacationment tvacation. they're still not going as much internationally as they were in 2019. they're just not sure how much is open, especially in europe, but we expect that to increase over the course of the summer. bottom line: they're getting out. >> dickerson: can the system handle it, airlines, hotels, all of the institutions that have been challenged -- can they handle this new glut of people wanting to get out there? >> i think if travelers approach it with some patience, because i think airports will still have a bit of lines -- i think flights will be quite full. i know airlines are

ramping up capacity as much as they can. so, yes, i think everyone is going to be able to have a great summer vacation no matter where they're going. >> dickerson: you mentioned the word "patience." there have been a number of incidents where people haven't shown patience. hitting airline attendants. some airlines are now not going to be serving alcohol. what do you think of that? >> i think there is pent-up demand. remember why you're going on vacation, to be relaxed, to visit family and friends, and the minor inconveniences to get there are just part of the travel. remember why you're going on that vacation. >> dickerson: you mentioned the minor inconveniences -- the people who traveled before the vaccines were available, certain places had restrictions in terms of mask-wearing, how many people could be in your party. do you see people making

choices on those kinds of things? do you see people making choices based on kind of where they can go in the country and feel free from the cultural restriction that is were part of the pandemic? >> i'm not sure on the cultural restrictions versus the pandemic introduced us to a lot more outdoor activities, and we do see that continuing this summer. i believe i read that the national parks say so many of them are booked up for camping throughout the summer. so as people go out and explore, as they look to have the great time -- i mean, on trip advisor we see hotel searches up, all of the different experiences you can book on trip advisor, those are really going quite strog. again, demonstrating that strong return to travel. >> dickerson: let's talk about a couple of specific kinds of travel. let's start with cruise ships. those played an important role in the pandemic. what is the status of the cruise ship industry? >> well, as you may know,

you can now cruise to aaska. there are cruise ships that are going to be coming online taking cruises. the cruise industry, if you've taken a cruise, chances are you love taking a cruise. they're very, very loyal. people are coming back, and they report quite strong bookings. if it is a cruise, a flight, or a hotel, you better start planning. >> dickerson: what about vaccine passports f travel? what should people think about that? and how much are businesses weighing that from a business standpoint? >> a lot of countries -- we're talking international travel -- they very naturally want to make sure their populations are protected. many, i believe, will be adopting some sort of a vaccine passport so travelers from other countries won't have to quarantine. so get your vaccine if you're in this country and you want to go abroad. that will be essentially

your passport to landing and getting on with the remarkable trip. we hope that many countries adopt the same type of vaccine passport so it becomes relatively easy, if you're going to france or germany or italy or the u.k., that you would be able to show the same form of passport and get in easily. >> dickerson: i want to ask you about foreign travel in a moment. i wonder are any businesses, even in the united states, making business decisions based on vaccination? are they looking at people who have been vaccinated and marketing to them, or making a judgment of the kinds of vacations people who are vaccinated would take or not? >> i'm not sure about that. but i have spoken to a number of small businesses that hope that more and more people all around the world will become vaccinated and therefore travel to the u.s., because the u.s. loves the tourist dollars from all over the world. a vaccine passport is a

great way to come in. >> dickerson: in the last 30 seconds, the state department has level four restrictions on so many foreign countries, almost 80% at one point. do you think that will change and how has it affected the travel business? >> it has been affecting the travel business in terms of how many people can take those international trips. we would really appreciate all governments getting together, or asking on their own, to allow foreigners to come into their countries with a vaccination passport or a set of tests to encourage more and more cross-board trips, vacations, and experiencing the whole world. >> dickerson: stephen kaufer, thank you so much for being with us. we have to travel to a commercial. and we'll be right back.

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release survey data that has never been collected in this way before. can you explain to us why this survey data is so important? >> yeah. and on a rainy day here in connecticut, i hate to be the one dampening the optimistic tone of this show so far, but we don't gather mental health data, impact data, in realtime. we never really have in the country. for the most part, we've had to wait a year or two after a crisis has occurred to try to assess the mental health effect. we have ben gathering, though, in realtime, mental health screening data over the course of the last several years. and the report today focuses on 750,000 mental seekers who took a mental health screen during the course of the pandemic to give us a realtime understanding about how the pandemic has affected them. >> dickerson: and why is it so important to have a realtime view, and how different is that from normally what we are able to do to collect data on

those facing mental health challenges? >> if you want to wait two or three years to figure out what happened before you develop policies and programs to address those policies, then you don't need realtime data. but if you want to get acting locally, state, and federally as quickly as you can to address mental health needs, have you to be looking at them in realtime. >> dickerson: in your opening remarks, you talked about a difference between the kind of happy days are here again and the important unseen, in some cases, struggles people have with mental health. that, in a way, has been the story of this entire pandemic. there is the big story of hospitals with patients ath has be and growing, series of challenges for people with serious mental health challenges. can you help us understand the landscape of what,

over the last year and a half, we've been through as a country, and what the data tells us about the challenges on the mental health front that we've been facing. >> sure. the mental health wave of this pandemic has been like a second wave to the physical health wave of the pandemic. what we've seen is dramatically increasing numbers of people, particularly young people, 11 to 17-year-olds, who have been taking mental health screens and have been experiencing mental health problems. one data point, for example, is more than a third of people across all age groups, who come seeking help, say they're experiencing frequent thoughts of suicide or self-harm, more than half the days of the week. that is one-third of the population. and more than one half among our kids. >> dickerson: and has -- while it has been a second wave, and maybe not gotten as much attention, do you think that because this has been the pandemic that

everybody has experienced, and many people have experienced a mental health component of it, that we as a country are more -- that we recognize mental health challenges to your lives in a way we ore?d not have >> yeah. i think we're recognizing them more because half of us would have had a diagnosable mental health condition, most likely depression or anxiety over the past year. whether or not we're going to do something about that is the question. it is easy to say we're getting more attention, public officials, community leaders, are all focusing more than before on the mental health side of this pandemic. but we're hoping to do is to try to take this to the state and local level and give state and local leaders an opportunity to do something with this information for our kids, for our families, and for our communities. >> dickerson: and you mentioned do something quickly, instead of waiting for the time to

lag in which you can't make a move quickly. is there something about technology and the screening that you've been talking about that actually, across the board or in the future, will help create programs that assess mental health in realtime so we can get at this instead of having people suffer in silence? >> yeah. think about this: we've got 15,000 people each and every day coming and taking a mental health screen at mental health america's website. 15,000 people aday telling us what they need and giving us an opportunitypto fige trauma is affecting them, how depression is affecting them, what their suicidal thinking is. even serious areas like psychosis. the thing is to be able to take advantage of what people are telling us to develop a system of care, services, and support that actually answers the needs of people, and not just addresses the needs as

identified by advocates like me or service providers out there since the beginning because we need to rebuild this mental health delivery system, if we're going to support everybody, including our kids, all the way up to people in my age group. >> dickerson: you wrote recently that kids are returning to school broken. what did you mean by that? >> think about this, even before the pandemic, only about one child in every 30, who would have been, by m.i.n.h. de definition would need mental health were being dend fi identified to get that service. in addition to them, so are the rest of our students. the children who have been at home for the last year, the children that have had their lives ripped from them, the lives th they knew, are coming back. and in addition to that, the teachers and staff

need support. when we say they're coming back broken, it is not like we can't do something about it. those kids with severe issues need support, as do their teachers, but the truth is they're not getting it yet. >> dickerson: hopefully after this discussion, after this discussion, they'll get more of that. paul gionfriddo, thank you so much for being with us. and we'll be back in a moment. 's 1958. we've been through all kinds of changes, but this pandemic has been the most difficult of all the challenges i've experienced. [voice of male] the chili bowl really has never closed in our history. people come here to see the photos on the wall, to meet the family. you couldn't have that experience anymore. so, we had to pivot. there's no magic formula, but it's been really helpful to keep people updated on googl. we wouldn't be here without our wonderful customers. we do get so much support

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devotion to the broadcast and to the people behind the cameras, as well as those in front of it. and that laugh of hers, which for so long filled up our hallways. thank you, pat. i, along with everyone else here at "face the nation," with you a happy retirement. thank you for watching "face the nation." next sunday we'll be talking with former secretary of state condoleezza rice. until them, i'm john dickerson for "face the nation." just a mi captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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